On 01/11/2009 11:52 AM, Yves Goergen wrote:
> On 11.01.2009 00:41 CE(S)T, Hugh Barnes wrote:
>> how about
>> parallel/redundant text-based controls? One could allow selection by
>> ID. Just in case I'm having trouble selecting any object, why not allow
>> me to input its ID? [1]
>
> I've now tried that out: You can select any single object by entering
> its ID with the menu command "Edit, Search" (de: "Bearbeiten, Suchen").
> Enter the relation ID into the first text field and it's going to be
> selected. It only doesn't work if the relation hasn't been downloaded.
> The download option "Resolve relations" may help, but it's so slow that
> you won't use it a second time.

How exactly does resolve all relations work? When I download a small 
(z18) part of Vienna it downloads ways from the whole town. The strange 
thing here is, I can't see how those ways are referenced in the small 
area I've initially downloaded. They do intersect some relations 
(outside my initial bounding box) and may share some nodes, but I don't 
care about that.

To be more precise the area I'm downloading contains a subway relation. 
So I would expect that one relation to be resolved. This is done 
perfectly. But I get *all* subways of Vienna when I download this small 
area[0]. So does it resolve all relations of relations recursively? That 
would at least explain the amount of data loaded.

I did not find any relations like "Subway system of Vienna" which 
contains all subway lines. But even if there were, I'd expect "resolve 
all relations" to resolve all relations in my initial area and stop 
afterwards. If there are relations of relations I'd suggest to add an 
option how often relations should be resolved.

thanks for your work,
Norbert

[0] 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lon=16.35306806093606&lat=48.23152158536314&zoom=18

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